Addie’s Long Summer

It’s the begin­ning of what promis­es to be a hot, dry sum­mer on the prairie, and twelve-year-old Addie Mills is feel­ing the weight of a big secret. While her fam­i­ly thinks she’s signed up to take the high school schol­ar­ship test. Addie has­n’t even mailed her appli­ca­tion. How can she admit she’s afraid she’ll fail and most of all, that she’s afraid to leave home? Even Tilla, her best friend does­n’t understand.

The arrival of Eliz­a­beth and Maudie, Addie’s cousins from Iowa, pro­vides a wel­come dis­trac­tion. Addie hopes to become espe­cial­ly good friends with Eliz­a­beth, who is her own age, but Eliz­a­beth is mis­chie­vous and spoiled.

Maudie is with­drawn, and from the begin­ning of the cousins’ vis­it, noth­ing goes as planned. It takes the rev­e­la­tion of anoth­er secret and an amaz­ing event to bring the cousins togeth­er and help Addie face the future.